Who makes the best Beauty Dish?

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Who makes the best Beauty Dish?

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2 жыл бұрын

Are all photographic beauty dishes created equal? Should you stick with the classic, but easily damaged, metal beauty dish? Or are the new line of collapsable dishes just as good.
Today in the Photo Kitchen, we put 4 dishes up to the test. A classic metal dish will take on the Impact, Profoto, and Chimera models of collapsable beauty dishes.
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@adamtoth3302 2 жыл бұрын

Highly informative. Thanks for making this video.

@PhotoKitchen425 2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@sokoloster 8 ай бұрын

Thanks, that was very helplfull!

@PhotoKitchen425 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching. Are you looking to make a purchase?

@stephanyfaycohen3842 5 ай бұрын

Many thanks for this great video. I have the NEEWER softbox and beauty dish. GOD bless you.

@PhotoKitchen425 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching.

@ralphphotography56 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the explanation

@PhotoKitchen425 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

@crissignori7482 9 ай бұрын

Very useful information .... Thank you

@PhotoKitchen425 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching.

@blackdiamondgreg Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the helpful comparison. I recently used a traditional beauty dish for an on location shoot. Carrying it under my arm, along with 2 stands and a 20lb sandbag in my other hand was not fun. I like the compact nature of these folding modifiers and ability to retain the beauty dish light quality. Definitely going to be worth the investment for me.

@PhotoKitchen425 Жыл бұрын

I still like the traditional beauty dish, and in a studio location, it is ideal. The only down side is if the mount for your strobe is not great, or you are working with weaker stands or booms, the weight could be an issue. But the minute you leave the space of the studio, it becomes a real pain to transport. What brand are you looking to purchase Greg?

@blackdiamondgreg Жыл бұрын

@@PhotoKitchen425 Either a speedring mount portable beauty dish or the Godox/3rd Party Ad-S7 which mounts directly to the AD200 barebulb. The AD-S7 collapses down more than the large speedring hexapop type softbox/beauty dishes.

@PhotoKitchen425 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic, keep us posted on how you like it@@blackdiamondgreg !

@alirivera9911 2 жыл бұрын

Great info! Can I use that Impact with an AD200?

@PhotoKitchen425 2 жыл бұрын

You would need a Speedlight bracket to the AD200 could mount to a normal speed ring, but yet, it would work.

@jasonbodden8816 2 ай бұрын

The traditional beauty dish is used for group shots and full body shots a ton now. Lots of photographers don't only use them for Beauty headshots but for a host of other things like swimwear photography and other forms of portraiture. Also, I will never use rod assembly modifiers in life again. On location, rods are not time friendly and are just extremely annoying.

@PhotoKitchen425 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@shaolin95 5 ай бұрын

Simple answer. Mola makes by far the best BDs

@PhotoKitchen425 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching.

@quanishamoody7770 Жыл бұрын

Can you review Bowens mount beauty dishes?

@PhotoKitchen425 Жыл бұрын

Great question. Outside of the Profoto OCF beauty dish, all of these dishes are generic and can fit/adapt to Bowens mount. I think if you are not traveling, a metal beauty dish is great, and for value the Impact is hard to beat. Chimera is pricey, but probably going to last the longest in a travel situation.

@quanishamoody7770 Жыл бұрын

@@PhotoKitchen425 I’m not quite sure if that’s going to work. I’m using a PCB Einstein and I’m already using an adapter for that light to go onto a Bowens mount.

@PhotoKitchen425 Жыл бұрын

Three of these dishes are generic, so you would go with any of the three and get them in a Bowens mount, or even go back to a PCB mount @@quanishamoody7770 .

@jaym5938 Жыл бұрын

@@quanishamoody7770 Many of the generic beauty dishes and soft box speed rings take 'inserts' (6" standard). You are likely using one right now, which you call your adapter. But look up inserts and understand that whatever generic mount or speed ring you use there should be a Bowens option.

@nickwass8764 8 ай бұрын

Have you tried the wescotts?